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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; with the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward. If a man walks in a froward way, and opposes God, he will soon find that God treats him in a similar fashion. Sinners shall surely smart for their...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright; with the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the forward thou wilt shew thyself forward. For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks. If your faith cannot endure testing and trying, it is but poor faith. It will...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure,.... None of Adam's posterity are pure by nature; they are all defiled with sin; and though some are pure in their own eyes, they are far from being cleansed from their filthiness; such only are pure who are sanctified by the Spirit of God, have clean hearts created in them, and whose hearts are purified...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou wilt save the afflicted people,.... As the people of God commonly are; they are afflicted with sin, and the corruption of their own hearts, and with Satan and his temptations, and with the world, its reproaches, and persecutions; but God in his own time saves them out of them, if not here, yet hereafter. This is particularly and eminently...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt save the afflicted people; There is comfort there for any of you who are his people, and who are under his afflicting hand. Psa_18:27. But wilt bring down high looks. Pride excites the indignation of Jehovah; it is to the humble that he has regard.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For thou wilt light my candle,.... Or lamp (d): in 2 Samuel 22:29, it is, "Thou [art] my lamp, O Lord"; which may either design outward prosperity, and the flourishing condition of David's kingdom; or internal spiritual light, and an increase of it, by giving fresh supplies of the oil of grace, to cause the lamp to burn more clearly; or rather the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt light my candle the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness. Plead that promise if you are in the dark at this moment. If you are God’s child, he will bring you out into the light ere long.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlightened my darkness. For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect: If you practice self-reliance, but not God-reliance, you will be sure to fail. What poor strength that is which does not come from God! Is it worthy of the...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For by thee I have run through a troop,.... Or, "I have run to a troop": to meet one (f) with courage and intrepidity, as some interpret it (g); or, as others (h), "I have run after a troop": that is, pursued after one, as David pursued after the troops of the Amalekites who burnt Ziklag, 1 Samuel 30:8; to which Jarchi refers this passage; or...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall. God’s warriors have to fight in various ways, and in all they must quit themselves like men, and ascribe all their triumphs to their Lord.
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Verse 29-45. See Psalms on "Psa_18:29" for further information. Verse 29-45. See Psalms on "Psa_18:29" for further information. Verse 29-45. See Psalms on "Psa_18:29" for further information. Verse 29-45. See Psalms on "Psa_18:29" for further information.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[As for] God, his way [is] perfect,.... Or "without spot" (m), as the Septuagint render the word; without any just charge of inequality, or unrighteousness; such is God's way of providence, though sometimes his methods of providence are cavilled at by wicked men, and murmured at by his own people: they are at a loss, at times, to reconcile...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. No armor of proof or shield of brass so well secures the warrior as the covenant God of Israel protects his warring people. He is himself the buckler of trustful ones.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him. For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places. He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For who [is] God save the Lord?.... Or Jehovah: there is but one God, and Jehovah is he; there is none besides him, nor any like him: there are many that are called gods, nominal deities, who are not by nature gods; fictitious ones, the idols of the Gentiles, made of gold, silver, brass, wood, and stone; but there is but one true God: there are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For who is God save the LORD? or who is a rock save our God? Where can lasting hopes be fixed? Where can the soul find rest? Where is stability to be found? Where is strength to be discovered? Surely, in the Lord Jehovah alone can we find rest and refuge.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
[It is] God that girdeth me with strength,.... For battle, as in Psalms 18:39; with strength of body and fortitude of mind; both which are from the Lord, and were in David; and were acknowledged by him as bestowed on him by the Lord; and which confirms what he had before said of him: or with spiritual strength, with strength in his soul, against...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet, and setteth me upon my high places. He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy right hand hath holden me up, and thy gentleness hath made me great. I...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He maketh my feet like hind's [feet],.... As light and swift as theirs, as the Targum; that is, either to flee, when there was a necessity for it, as Kimchi observes; or rather to pursue after the enemy, to run through a troop, and leap over a wall, as before; see 1 Chronicles 12:8; the same phrase is used in Habakkuk 3:19; and may be understood...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He teacheth my hands to war,.... From whence it appears, that war, in some cases, is lawful; and that all the skilfulness and art in training men for war, in the use of armour, in marshalling of armies, in forming sieges, c. is all from God see Psalms 144:1; and so is all that spiritual skill, in making use of the whole armour of God against every...